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[Paul Mackin]

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From: 	Isaac Schankler[SMTP:speicus at grfn.org]
Sent: 	Sunday, March 23, 1997 8:36 AM
To: 	pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: 	OK

    I just finished reading V. -- alot of it seems to be simply about the
inability to find answers in things.  Is that all it is?   Is there a more
complex message at work?   If not, I'm rather disappointed with the book,
with Pynchon, with postmodernism.  Is it really that one-track?
    Not to be insulting or anything... I'm new to Pynchon, and have some
questions, that's all.


>>>>>>>Well, I'm not a "message" person so may not be the one to reply if that what you seek, but didn't you find the mysterious quest tantalizing in itself? The exotic locales and bizarre historic references? I was totally haunted. Admittedly it's a first novel and not free of juvenilities. Strangely, he did better as he distanced his characters from himself in space and time. Suggest you read the novels in order. _The Crying of Lot 49_ is fairly easy and a good introduction to the enormously difficult  _Gravity's Rainbow_ in which he by most accounts hits his stride. The Pynch is one hell of a writer, IMHO.

				P.